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2014 world record attempts

2014 world record attempts: Members of the Air Force Academy Class of 2018 formed a giant push-up chain in an attempt Friday, July 11, 2014, to break the Guinness World Record for the largest chain push-up. Unofficially, 918 Basic Cadets completed three push-ups in the attempt at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Guinness will examine photos and video to decide in coming months if the Basics broke the previous record of 138 people set in 2012.

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2014 world record attempts

2014 world record attempts: Members of the Air Force Academy Class of 2018 formed a giant push-up chain in an attempt Friday, July 11, 2014, to break the Guinness World Record for the largest chain push-up. Unofficially, 918 Basic Cadets completed three push-ups in the attempt at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Guinness will examine photos and video to decide in coming months if the Basics broke the previous record of 138 people set in 2012. AP

2014 world record attempts: Chefs Jim Brush, center, and Paul Menta, right, spread filling into a huge Key lime pie, Friday, July 4, 2014, in Key West, Fla. The gargantuan pastry, measuring 9 feet, 2 inches in diameter, was the centerpiece of the Key Lime Festival that concludes Saturday. The pie's ingredients included juice from 6,480 Key limes, 60 gallons of sweetened condensed milk and 220 pounds of graham crackers. The gigantic version of the Florida Keys' signature dessert is being submitted to the World Record Academy as the world's largest Key lime pie. AP

2014 world record attempts:As part of a Christmas in June promotion fans try to set a Guinness World Record for the most people wearing Santa hats during the fifth inning of a baseball game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Minnesota Twins in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, June 25, 2014. AP

2014 world record attempts: Woman raise their cloth diapers as they wait for the signal to change their babies' diapers during the annual Cloth Diaper Change at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, on April 26, 2014, in Grand Blanc, Mich. Participants changed their babies' diapers to count toward breaking the world record of the most number of cloth diapers changed simultaneously worldwide. AP

2014 world record attempts: People assemble a chain of colored eggs to mark a world record with a 1-kilometer line of Easter eggs, in the skiing resort of Chateau d'Oex, in the Swiss Alps, on April 21, 2014. AP

2014 world record attempts: In this photo released by The Middle Way Meditation Institute, tens of thousands of participants stand beside bamboo torches using candles to form a message of peace and a Philippine map in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record lon April 14, 2014, in Oton township, Iloilo province in central Philippines. AP

2014 world record attempts: Jerry Gilbert brushes his horse, Big Jake, at the Midwest Horse Fair, on April 11, 2014, in Madison, Wis. The Belgian gelding is the Guinness World Record-holder for world's tallest living horse at one quarter inch short of 6 feet, 11 inches. He weighs about 2,600 pounds. AP

2014 world record attempts: The Meiyintang "Chicken Cup" from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is displayed during a press conference in Hong Kong, on April 8, 2014. Sotheby's said Shanghai collector Liu Yiqian paid $36.1 million for the cup, a world record price for Chinese porcelain. AP

2014 world record attempts: Bangladeshis wave their national flags as they gather at the National Parade Ground to create a Guinness world record of most people singing the national anthem in unison, to mark the countrys?s Independence Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March 26, 2013. A total of 254,681 people reportedly gathered and sang the national anthem to surpass the earlier record holders in India, according to news reports. AP

2014 world record attempts: People gather to form a woman symbol as they celebrate International Women's Day at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines on Saturday, March 8, 2014. The organizers hope to bring in 10,000 participants and set a Guinness World Record as the biggest human formation of the woman symbol. AP

2014 world record attempts: Crowds brave the cold to break the current Guinness World Record for people wearing sunglasses in the dark for the fourth annual Laughfest Kickoff at Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday, March 6, 2014. AP

2014 world record attempts: Students from the country's state university, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, wave their "lifeline forms" indicating their willingness to donate their internal organs Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 in Manila, Philippines in hopes of breaking a Guinness World Record for ?Most People to Sign Up as Organ Donor?. AP

2014 world record attempts: Guinness World Records confirmed China's Guangzhou Daming United Rubber Products produced the world's thinnest latex condom, which has an average thickness of 0.0014 inches. AP

2014 world record attempts: St. Louis native Micah Willis paddles his board on Feb. 3, 2014, on his way from St. Louis to Treasure Island, Fla. Willis is attempting a world record land-paddle journey. AP

2014 world record attempts: Chris Shields, 53, of Champaign, Ill., after he set the record for catching a softball from the greatest height. Shields managed to catch the softball in his mitt tossed out of an ultralight plane hovering 250 feet above the ground in Sullivan, Ill. AP

2014 world record attempts: Staff members from a Japanese sushi chain restaurant created a sushi mosaic in Hong Kong. A total of 20,647 pieces of sushi were formed into a 400-square-foot space which broke the Guinness World Record for largest sushi mosaic. AP

2014 world record attempts: Fireworks explode over the World Islands to celebrate the New Year Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 as Dubai attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the largest firework display. AP

2014 world record attempts:A Lego Store in Budapest organized the construction of a 114 foot tall Lego tower, which broke the Guiness World Record for the tallest structure built with interlocking plastic bricks. Guinness World Records